Occupy at 10.
A Love Story.
We’re nearly 10 years on from Occupy Wall Street. We wanted to get a jump on the retrospective before every mainstream news outlet hops on and gives it perfunctory treatment and dismisses it as a failed movement. It wasn’t a failure. If anything, it was the scariest movement the establishment has seen since the anti-Vietnam War protests. It was fast but it was furious. And aspects of it continue to resonate through our society. It was the grand awakening from our post-9/11 haze and the people took to the streets to revolt against a system of inequality and systemic oppression. Occupy might have been brutally cleared from Zuccotti Park, but the spirit of the movement lives on through Progressives today and the lessons from it will carry us into the future. This is Occupy at 10: A Love Story.
Show Notes
Clips
Episode Timestamp + Link | Clip Link
- 00:06:37 | Occupy Wall Street Protest We Are The 99 Percent
- 00:07:32 | CNN: Trump mocks reporter with disability
- 00:13:21 | Chris Hedges on the Occupy Movement
- 00:14:43 | Senator Bernie Sanders: Occupy Wall Street
- 00:15:52 | George Carlin: Occupy Wall Street
- 00:16:45 | NBC News: MLK Talks 'New Phase' Of Civil Rights Struggle, 11 Months Before His Assassination
- 00:18:42 | New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says "Love wins. Always. And it will again through this virus."
- 00:24:39 | CBS News: Bloomberg empties Occupy Wall Street camp
- 00:31:16 | Bill Hicks explains US Presidency
- 00:33:04 | Wall Street: Greed Is Good
- 00:34:54 | Real Time with Bill Maher: Cornel West
Book Love
- Howard Zinn: A People's History of the United States
Image Source
- Mike Fleshman, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Changes were made.
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